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...takes so little time for a quiet, carefully constructed life to be destroyed. The earthquake that struck Central Java in Indonesia on May 27 lasted just 57 seconds, yet it killed at least 6,200 people, left tens of thousands injured or homeless, and ravaged an area of some 500 sq km in and around the city of Yogyakarta. So much devastation, all in less than a minute...
...pitch as the Yale fan base recoiled in horror, and the few Harvard students aware of what was transpiring broke into wild celebration. The thieves raced through the end zone and to the stairwell leading into the Harvard student section—and immortality—when disaster struck. Handsome Dan’s legs were too short to climb the steps, and, at 70 snarling, drooling, squirming pounds, he was far too heavy to carry. The dream was dead...
...have committed their crime in the worst possible place: outside the front door of a budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43, was at home in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19 when around 7:15 he heard the detonation of the roadside bomb that struck a Marine humvee, killing the driver, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20. The blast shattered Thabet's windows. He ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their vehicles and heading for four homes on either side of the road. "They went into one house...
...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...
...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...